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Bluestone, which now has 20 stores in the U.S., went cashless last October.
A big reason: Nearly 90 percent of customers [...] never paid in cash.
Another reason: The lines move faster when employees don't have to make change.
"We see a lot of guests that pay for a meal with a credit card, but will always leave a cash tip. And I think people like doing that. People like palming a bartender a $20 or palming their server a $10. Palming the bus boy a couple bucks," said Fileccia.
There are also people, he said, who want to keep their meal off the books — if they're having an affair, for example.
No, businesses are not required to accept cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 09 2018, @06:25PM
What the fuck, buzz? Bad argument!
The employer is an EMPLOYER, not a contractor. The moment when waitstaff are independent agents who get a commission or whatever for every client they serve, sure. Until then...
I know! Here's the thought experiment for you!
I get hired as a waiter, by a restaurant that pays only tips, to work 1pm-5pm, 7d/wk. My job includes cleaning, rollups, etc while not waiting tables. That restaurant then starts putting signs out front at noon, saying 'come back at 5pm.' Now I'm earning $0/hr but doing productive work for a profiting company.
Get it now?
Servers are not responsible for:
-advertising
-scheduling appropriate waitstaff count
-kitchen supply
-weather
-etc.
All of these - yes even weather!* - need to be accounted for by the employer. They have employed me. They haven't offered me piecemeal work at any tables I can find where people are hoping for food. If my employer decides to schedule double the waitstaff, without clientele increasing, why am I suddenly working the same hours for half the pay? It's not my decision when to open the doors in the morning, nor how many others I will work beside.
Paying employees of a larger entity in tips is /insane/ if you put /any/ thought into it.
Paying individuals a tip, or even making the tip be the whole payment, is fine. It's not fine to get free labour, with the hope of tips if all goes well. That's an abusive power structure.
*weather: really! if a rainstorm is coming in, let some staff go home, it's going to be a quiet night! If it's a balmy game night, call extras in to handle the volume! If you'd ever worked in a kitchen you'd understand this.